State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Subrat Sahoo has announced the training schedule for officials and polling agents for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls scheduled later this year. In a bid to conduct free and fair polls, the Election Commission of India had finalized the training schedule to be conducted at state and district levels.
Informing about the schedule, Sahoo said the training would commence from February 11 and would be continued till a day prior to the elections.
As per schedule, the Nodal officers would be imparted training from February 11 to 13, 2019, Sector officers from February 15 to 20, MCC and EEM teams would be given training on February 14 and 15, Videographers on February 19, Presiding officers and First Polling officers would be given training from February 11 to 25, he informed.
Similarly, the EVM awareness teams would be imparted training from February 9 to 28, Micro Observers on February 27 and 28 while polling teams would be given first round of training from February 11 to 25, second round from March 10 to 20 and third round on a day prior to the polling, he informed.